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books for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Mima Lord has been scanning the shelves
in the Shop at St Laurence’s for the perfect
Christmas presents for children.
This month there are two particularly
lovely Christmas books in the church
shop just right for your children (or
grandchildren). Both sell at just £7.99.
The first is a beautiful board book for
younger children – The Christmas Story.
The perfect way to bring the classic
story to life, this book is packed with
colourful illustrations and engaging text
for you to read to a child. They will love
pointing out details in the pictures of
Nazareth and Bethlehem, naming all the
animals and even opening the doors of
the stable where the baby Jesus was
born.
Family tree
At a drinks party at a wealthy golf club,
the conversation turned to the subject
of ancestry. “Of course, we trace our
family back to coming over with William
the Conqueror,” observed one lady with
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For slightly older children – and for you
– there’s a republishing of Graham
Oakley’s beautifully illustrated classic
The Church Mice at Christmas to curl up
with. The Church Mice stories focus on
the adventures of a hapless group of
church mice who live in an old Gothic
church in the fictional town of
Wortlethorpe, England, along with their
guardian, Sampson the cat. In this
adventure, after a series of failed
attempts to raise money for a Christmas
party, two of the mice, Arthur and
Humphrey, and Sampson decide to raise
the other mice’s spirits by dressing up as
Father Christmas and his reindeer. Little
do they know that their actions will lead
to the capture of a burglar and a reward
hamper filled with everything the mice
could ever dream of!
satisfaction. She turned to a second
woman, who was new to the club, and
asked, “What about you dear? Can you
go back very far?”
“Not very far,” came the reply. “You see,
all the early family records were lost in
the Flood.”